# Weaviate takes a lot of time to startup
**URL:** https://forum.weaviate.io/t/weaviate-takes-a-lot-of-time-to-startup/1686
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** integration, developer-experience
**Created:** [March 12, 2024, 2:13pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/weaviate-takes-a-lot-of-time-to-startup/1686 "2024-03-12T14:13:10Z")
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### Author:  [@Iammsd07](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/Iammsd07)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2024, 2:13pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/weaviate-takes-a-lot-of-time-to-startup/1686/1 "2024-03-12T14:13:10Z")
Hi Team,
I am using weaviate docker image: weaviate:1.22.0 and I am using PERSISTENCE\_DATA\_PATH as some local storage.
Now for the first time it starts pretty quickly within some seconds but when I stop the weaviate (when the system restarts) and start it again, it finds data in PERSISTENCE\_DATA\_PATH and takes a very long to start up as it is trying to load that data in that path.
Is there a way that I can disable it from the environment variable or something and start the weaviate without loading that content and then restore whatever I need from backup?
Your help would be much appreciated.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@DudaNogueira](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/DudaNogueira)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2024, 5:22pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/weaviate-takes-a-lot-of-time-to-startup/1686/2 "2024-03-12T17:22:43Z")
Hi @Iammsd07 !
How many collections do you have? Also, do see any outstanding logs?
This can be caused by a large number of collections, so Weavaite can take quite some time loading all the classes into memory.
[Weaviate 1.23+](https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate/releases/tag/v1.23.0) has introduced Startup Time / MTTR Improvements that may help here.
Other than that, unless you backup your data somewhere, for example, using S3, start a new server, and restore from that backup, I am not sure there is other way around.
Let me know if this helps.
Thanks!